MIN­IS­TER IN­TER­VENES

IT’S hoped a last minute in­ter­ven­tion by Health Min­is­ter Si­mon Harris will see a vi­tal life-chang­ing kid­ney can­cer drug given to lo­cal can­cer fundraiser Peter Milne.

In a state­ment to this news­pa­per yes­ter­day (Mon­day) af­ter­noon, the Depart­ment of Health said that the HSE told them that it “ex­pects the treat­ment to be avail­able from 1 Novem­ber 2017.”

How­ever when it was put to them that that might be too late for Peter Milne, Min­is­ter Harris told this news­pa­per that “he was aware of the par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stances of the case” and “he’d like to see an in­terim so­lu­tion found.”